Thursday, February 05, 2015

Ronald Reagan prediction coming true

Bill Federer

Ronald
Reagan was born Feb. 6, 1911.

A
graduate of Eureka College, Illinois, 1932, he worked as a life guard and then
announced for radio stations in Iowa.

He
became a sports announcer for Chicago Cubs baseball games and traveled with the
team. While with the Cubs in California, Ronald Reagan auditioned with Warner
Brothers, landing a contract doing “B films.”

He
was a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.

During
his career as an actor he appeared in over 50 films.

He
married Jane Wyman and had children Maureen, Christine (died a day old) and
Michael (adopted).

Ronald
Reagan was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, switched from Democrat
to Republican and eventually became Governor of California.

His
second marriage, to Nancy Davis, 1952, gave them children Patti and Ron.

At
age 69, he was the oldest person elected U.S. president, and 69 days after his
inauguration, he survived an assassination attempt.

Ronald
Reagan stated at St. John’s University in New York, March 28, 1985: “Government
that is big enough to give you everything you want is more likely to simply
take everything you’ve got.”

Ronald
Reagan remarked to the Heritage Council, Warren, Michigan, Oct. 10, 1984:
“Henry David Thoreau was right: ‘That government is best which governs least.’”

In
his 1964 speech, “A Time for Choosing,” Ronald Reagan stated: “I suggest to you
there is no left or right, only an up or down. Up to the maximum of individual
freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of
totalitarianism; and regardless of their humanitarian purpose, those who would
sacrifice freedom for security have, whether they know it or not, chosen this
downward path.”

Ronald
Reagan stated in Beijing, China, April 27, 1984: “I have seen the rise of
fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the
state. … But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are
the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the
existence of God.”

On
March 20, 1981, at the Conservative Political Action Conference Dinner,
Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C., Ronald Reagan stated: “Evil is powerless if
the good are unafraid. That’s why the Marxist vision of man without God must
eventually be seen as an empty and a false faith – the second oldest in the
world – first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with whispered words …’Ye shall
be as gods.’ The crisis of the Western world … exists to the degree in which it
is indifferent to God.”

On
May 17, 1982, in a proposed Constitutional Amendment on Prayer in Schools,
President Ronald Reagan stated: “Our liberty springs from and depends upon an
abiding faith in God.”

President
Reagan proclaimed: “Now, therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, president of the United
States of America, in recognition of the contributions and influence of the
Bible on our Republic and our people, do hereby proclaim 1983 the ‘Year of the
Bible’ in the United States. I encourage all citizens, each in his or her own
way, to reexamine and rediscover its priceless and timeless message.”

Ronald
Reagan wrote in his article, “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation,” The
Human Life Review, 1983: “Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a
free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and
should be slaves. … Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide
that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion.”

At
the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series, 1982, Ronald Reagan stated: “We can’t have
it both ways. We can’t expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him
over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He
isn’t waiting for us to wake up, He isn’t maybe running out of patience.”

At
Reunion Arena in Dallas, 1984, Ronald Reagan stated: “Without God there is no
virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience. … Without God there is
a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long
endure. … America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that
we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.”

In
1961, Ronald Reagan stated: “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism
or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to
disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. … James Madison in 1788 …
said … ‘There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people
by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and
sudden usurpations.’ … What can we do about this? … We can write to our
congressmen and our senators. … Say right now that we want no further
encroachment on these individual liberties and freedoms. … We do not want
socialized medicine. … If you don’t, this program I promise you will pass … and
behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom
as we have known … until, one day … we will awake to find that we have
socialism. And … you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our
children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men
were free.”